Wanda's Picks Radio Show, Wed., July 17, 2019

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!

1. Lesley Schisgall Currier, Managing Director, Director, A Midsummer Night's Dream, at Marin Shakespeare Company. As the MTC celebrates its 30th Anniversary Season we talk about the current production, "Measure for Measure," through July 21, and the theme: Playing for Good.

2. Elizabeth Jones, Motormouth Maybelle, Bay Area Musicals, July 6-Aug.11 at Victoria Theatre in SF. Visit bamsf.org/hairspray

3. From the Archives: End Game: AIDS in the Black Community with Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick

4. 2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Witness The Power Of Truth with Outgoing Artistic Director, Amy Mueller and Playwrights (this morning): Terence Anthony (The House of the Negro Insane), Candis C. Jones, dir.(HNI); Candrice Jones (FLEX); Claudia Alick, dramaturg (FLEX), Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, director, FLEX; July 19-28, Potrero Stage, 1695 18th St., San Francisco.
https://playwrightsfoundation.org/

Music: Meklit and Quinn; Zion Trinity

50th Anniversary of Apollo II

https://earthsky.org/space/space-scientists-apollo-anniversary-talk-program-july17-2019Music: Meklit &Quinn; Zion Trinity